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What are the problems with sigmoid as an activation function?

The output of the sigmoid function for large positive or negative numbers is almost zero. From this comes the problem of vanishing gradient.

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Card 1 of 197. Answer: The output of the sigmoid function for large positive or negative numbers is almost zero. From this comes the problem of vanishing gradient.

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